The Wilner household was a U-verse household, until AT&T dropped the Pac-12 Networks.

I need the Pac-12 Networks, of course, and because wanted to keep our AT&T internet service, had two options for the Pac12Nets on the streaming front: Sling, and fubo.

I chose Sling, got the fully-loaded sports package (Sling Blue and Sling Orange) and can watch all six Pac-12 regional networks … but alas, Sling doesn’t carry the CBS Sports Network, which aired the Wildcats’ game tonight.

(U-verse does carry CBSSN, by the way.)

So I tracked the game on Gamecast, and I tracked it on Twitter, and I scoured the box score regularly.

That’s not the same as watching, of course.

And for that reason, you won’t find any commentary here on the particulars, although I heard the Wildcats could have used a timeout or two at the end.

2. Extra time for a quick recovery

It was difficult to watch … err, monitor … the events in Honolulu without pondering the current and future state of Arizona’s defense.

The unit had nine months to prepare and eight returning starters … and gave up 600 yards to Hawaii.

What adjustments will defensive coordinator Marcel Yates make?

How quickly will they take hold?

How long will they last?

The Wildcats have a week off, then face Northern Arizona — that’s three full weeks until their next FBS date, at home against Texas Tech in what now stands as a must-win game.

The odds of Arizona reaching the postseason with a 1-2 non-conference mark are not promising.

3. “Drifting out of range”

To our knowledge, Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens has offered the best explanation of the revenue gap, the phrased use to describe the growing disparity in conference distributions between the Pac-12 and the Big Ten and SEC.

* Managing the quarterback depth … which players to recruit, which players to sign, when to sign them, how to stagger their eligibility, how to coach them and keep them and structure the depth chart … is growing more difficult, and more important, by the season.

We do wonder if the football gods have something in store for UW’s quarterback room this fall.

5. The ACC Network is up and running.

Thursday marked the long-awaited launch of the ACCNet, a join venture between the conference and ESPN.

The network has no bearing on the Pac-12, save for the exposure it generates for ACC teams and the cash it dumps into ACC coffers — exposure and cash that could help the ACC hire coaches and sign recruits at the Pac-12’s expense.

We plan to monitor the ACCNet’s success closely, because its fundamentals are more closely aligned to the Pac-12 than those of either the SEC or Big Ten networks.

The SEC and Big Ten have enormous intrinsic advantages in depths of fan affinity, sizes of alumni bases, in-footprint populations and brand programs.

Fundamentally, the ACC is much closer to the Pac-12 in many respects, and it went with the anti-Pac-12 plan:

The Pac-12 didn’t take on a partner; the ACC did.

The Pac-12 created six regional feeds; the ACC didn’t.

Similar fundamentals, dissimilar paths.

Let’s see how the Pac-12 and ACC networks compare on reach and revenue once the latter is fully mature.

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Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.

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